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Yun, Suk-im. “Modernity of Emily Dickinson.” Studies on English Language and Literature.
33.3(2007): 89-106. Emily Dickinson is one of the founders of a uniquely American poetic
voice in the nineteenth century. In spite of the years and changes which separate twenty
first-century readers from her, what she speaks to us appears fresh and relevant and she seems
to hold a unique claim upon the mind of us. Dickinson’s poems have been admired by a vast
number of widely diverse modern readers. Their modernity has proven sufficient to sustain
them. This essay will focus on modernity of Dickinson’s poetry which relates Dickinson to the
modern reader. Her acute observations and concern for precise detail, skepticism about the
relationship between man and nature, her interest in natural subjects usually thought of as
unsuitable for poetry, and her sense of self as a woman poet against a male-dominated tradition
make her status as a great poet unquestionably modern. (Ulsan University)